Childhood sweethearts who have been married for 20 years, Anna and Brad juggle the FIFO lifestyle while raising Kaliha, 16, Jarvis, 15, and Wakelin, 11 at their home in St James.

For this family, the weeks are a maze of work, study, extracurricular commitments and, for the boys, making time to play Fortnite.

This year is shaping as a big one for the family: Wakelin’s first year of high school, Kaliha’s last year of high school and Anna and Brad’s first big holiday away from their children since they were born.

Over the coming months the Hill family — or, The Wests, as you will come to know them — will voice their opinions in the pages of The West Australian on everything from election campaign cash splashes, to the latest sporting scandal, cost of living pressures or a new tech trend that has teenagers buzzing.

With Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Perth, they have a message for Australian politicians — stop the Canberra circus if you want our vote.

Anna said she had become “totally jaded” by politics over the past five years, and the latest One Nation saga only exacer-bated that feeling.

“One would hope some of this insight (from the Al Jazeera sting) might make those people who are potential supporters take a second look and think ‘They’re not the type of people I want to align with’,” she said.

Anna said her vote in the May election was up for grabs.

“We will assess each individual campaign and it would come heavily down to who the leader is,” she said.

“But politics is a circus ... it’s rich, white men politics ... they are disconnected from what society at large needs.”

Brad said he, too, was frus-trated at the state of politics in Australia.

“All of the leadership changes signals to me that there is not a solid core of political movement there, in either party,” he said. “We vote in a political party, and a leader, and they go and change it ... so why should we stand by them.”

Kaliha is more than a year away from being eligible to vote, but it’s not a prospect that fills her with excitement.

“There aren’t many politicians who care about young people,” she said. “So many people I know are like ‘I’m not even going to vote properly’.”